Are you alive?

Matthew 22:32 "I am The God of Abraham, and The God of Issac, and The God of Jacob. He is not The God of the dead, but of the living."

It's the middle of the week and I would like to check your vital signs. Are you living? Most if not all may answer, of course I am living. If I was dead I would not be able to read this post. In that perspective you would be right. However, I am talking about being alive  spiritually and mentally. Where is your focus? Is it on dead works, people, and things? How can that be possible some may ask? Well, some are stuck on people who refuse to change. Others are stuck on situations that are stagnant, and others on things that stop producing life a long time ago or maybe never did.


My pastor has us reading a book titled, Autopsy of a Deceased Church by Thom Rainer. In the book it gives a diagnosis of how different churches slowly died throughout the years. Some didn't want to change. Others magnified the past. Then you had the ones that paid more attention to their needs than the needs of others which will effect the growth of the church. If something isn't growing then we usually consider it dead. How can we grow? Are you getting enough Son? Just like the sun rays, His Light brings forth happiness, energy, and light to our dark paths. Without Jesus we are doomed to death. Even in our salvation, the lack of His Ways in our lives can be detrimental to our witness. God also encourages us to not allow our faith to be dead, but to proclaim it boldly. Because if we claim we serve an awesome and living God then our works should correlate with our faith. We can't say God is this and that then give up every time we face a trial because He is not dead and proves it through our trials. That's why we are glad when we are tempted and tried because we know that God WILL come to our rescue on His Time. I urge you to continue to live in Christ. Don't allow anyone or anything to prevent your growth. Live! Live until you die to live everlasting because our God is The God of The Living!